How to Create Document Templates for Document Libraries

With SharePoint, there’s a feature that helps with source control for document templates. Using Content Types in combination with document libraries we can have a set of document templates that users can choose from, edit and save without over-writing the original document.

Here are the steps to implement this:

1. Create a Document Library

2. Within the site that contains that Document Library, go to Site Actions > Site Settings

Good one,
Please suggest me for the below requirement.
I have list of templates. I will upload those templates into document library, whenever I open the uploaded template, It opens and making changes to the same template it is not allowing me to saves as document.

Iam Beginner for Sharepoint.I Need to do Customize Document Library in Sharepoint Using Code.I Tried as You Given Explanation,But it is Through UI.But I Need to do with coding as a dll.Is it Possible in C#.

Hi, under general settings > advanced settings, is there a way to have “Allow management of content types” always default to yes? (maybe from a central admin section?)

When I create new libraries I want the New button to offer excel templates by default without having to go through the above instructions. Reason being, eventually there will be hundreds of libraries across the site and i don’t go through all of these steps 100s of times.

Hey Mike, there’s no central setting for that “Allow management of content types” section to be yes by default. Although, you can create a Document Library template that has the document template attached to it by default.

Another thing you can do is utilize a Powershell script that can change this setting for you. Or you can send me a $20 dollar bill and I’ll do it for you 🙂

I have list of templates. I like to upload them 10
in one job. Also in the “root” of mos2007, because I don’t want to replace many times when the templates are stored on many places on our mos2007 document libraries.

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A great post! But I have a question now. Recently I uploaded a new template in the content type. The changes are reflected in the new documents that are being created. However, old documents are still using the old template:S

Even though I have stated yes, in the option “”Specify whether all child site and list content types that use this type to be updated with the settings on this page. This operation can take considerable time to perform, and any adjustments to the child site and list content types are lost”

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hi ppl,
i am relatively new to sharepoint and i wish to have two document libraries but under two different headings like this
1)Retail(Doc Lib1)
a)Contents
b)Docs
2)Nielsen(Doc Lib2)
a)Contents
b)Docs

However every time i try i get it like
1.Retail (Doc Lib1)
a)Nielsen
Why is this happening and how to avoid this please reply soon

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